THIS WEEK'S TOP 10 SPORTS BOOKS

1 Steve Waugh's World Cup Diary, Steve Waugh (Harper Sports, paperback, pounds 10.99)

2 BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Yearbook 1997, edited by Peter Nichols (Oddball Publishing, paperback, pounds 12.99)

3 Muhammad Ali: In Perspective, Thomas Hauser (Collins, paperback, pounds 16.99)

4 The Rugby War, Peter Fitzsimons (Harper Sports, paperback, pounds 9.99)

5 Annuario Del Calcio Mondiale 1996-97, edited by Salvatore Lo Presti (Set Torino, hardback, pounds 19.95)

6 From `Fergie Out!' to the Double Double - The Highs and Lows of Life as a Red, edited by Paul Davies (A & C Publishing, paperback, pounds 7.99)

7 The Best American Sports Writing 1996, edited by John Feinstein (Houghton Mifflin, paperback, pounds 8.99)

8 In The Year Of The Bull - Zen, Air and the Pursuit of Sacred & Profane Hoops, Rick Telander (Simon & Schuster, hardback, pounds 19.95)

9 The Sporting Life Trainers Review - Flat Season 1996 (The Sporting Life, paperback, pounds 16.95)

10 Terminator - The Authorised Julian Dicks Story, Kirk Blows (Polar Print, paperback, pounds 9.99)

List compiled by Sportspages Bookshops: 94-96 Charing Cross Road, London, 0171 240 9604 and St Ann's Square, Manchester, 0161 832 8530.